Bluetooth adapter gets disabled automatically

My bluetooth adapter keeps getting disabled immediately after connecting to any device. It is an Intel 7260HMW, running in a thinkpad t420. Log attached at bottom.
I will provide any additional information upon request.

Attempting to connect to F8:DF:15:[REDACTED]
[CHG] Device F8:DF:15:[REDACTED] Connected: yes
Connection successful
[CHG] Device F8:DF:15:[REDACTED] ServicesResolved: yes
[CHG] Controller AC:FD:CE:[REDACTED] Class: 0x00000000
[CHG] Device F8:DF:15:[REDACTED] ServicesResolved: no
[CHG] Device F8:DF:15:[REDACTED] Connected: no
[CHG] Controller AC:FD:CE:[REDACTED] Powered: no
[CHG] Controller AC:FD:CE:[REDACTED] Discovering: no
[DEL] Device F8:DF:15:[REDACTED] SRS-XB22
[DEL] Controller AC:FD:CE:[REDACTED] alei-t420 #2 [default]
[NEW] Controller AC:FD:CE:[REDACTED] alei-t420 #2 [default]
[NEW] Device F8:DF:15:[REDACTED] SRS-XB22
[CHG] Controller AC:FD:CE:[REDACTED] UUIDs: 00001133-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
[CHG] Controller AC:FD:CE:[REDACTED] UUIDs: 0000110e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
[CHG] Controller AC:FD:CE:[REDACTED] UUIDs: 00001105-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
[CHG] Controller AC:FD:CE:[REDACTED] UUIDs: 00001132-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
[CHG] Controller AC:FD:CE:[REDACTED] UUIDs: 00001200-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
[CHG] Controller AC:FD:CE:[REDACTED] UUIDs: 00001104-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
[CHG] Controller AC:FD:CE:[REDACTED] UUIDs: 00005005-0000-1000-8000-0002ee000001
[CHG] Controller AC:FD:CE:[REDACTED] UUIDs: 00001108-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
[CHG] Controller AC:FD:CE:[REDACTED] UUIDs: 0000110c-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
[CHG] Controller AC:FD:CE:[REDACTED] UUIDs: 00001801-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
[CHG] Controller AC:FD:CE:[REDACTED] UUIDs: 0000112f-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
[CHG] Controller AC:FD:CE:[REDACTED] UUIDs: 0000180a-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
[CHG] Controller AC:FD:CE:[REDACTED] UUIDs: 0000110b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
[CHG] Controller AC:FD:CE:[REDACTED] UUIDs: 00001800-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
[CHG] Controller AC:FD:CE:[REDACTED] UUIDs: 0000111f-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
[CHG] Controller AC:FD:CE:[REDACTED] UUIDs: 0000110a-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
[CHG] Controller AC:FD:CE:[REDACTED] UUIDs: 00001106-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb```

Provide Information:

  Kernel: 5.13.13-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
    parameters: initrd=\intel-ucode.img initrd=\initramfs-5.13-x86_64.img
    root=UUID=eac7dc6d-6c36-43e2-99aa-b637cb1ca1ed rw
  Console: pty pts/2 DM: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux
    base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 4238AY6 v: ThinkPad T420
    serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: 4238AY6 serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO
    v: 83ET76WW (1.46 ) date: 07/05/2013
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 33.2 Wh (99.7%) condition: 33.3/56.2 Wh (59.3%)
    volts: 12.4 min: 10.8 model: SANYO 42T4763 type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
    status: N/A
Memory:
  RAM: total: 7.65 GiB used: 3.96 GiB (51.8%)
  Array-1: capacity: 16 GiB slots: 2 EC: None max-module-size: 8 GiB
    note: est.
  Device-1: ChannelA-DIMM0 size: 4 GiB speed: 1333 MT/s type: DDR3
    detail: synchronous bus-width: 64 bits total: 64 bits manufacturer: Samsung
    part-no: M471B5273DH0-CH9 serial: <filter>
  Device-2: ChannelB-DIMM0 size: 4 GiB speed: 1333 MT/s type: DDR3
    detail: synchronous bus-width: 64 bits total: 64 bits manufacturer: Samsung
    part-no: M471B5273DH0-CH9 serial: <filter>
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i5-2520M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Sandy Bridge
    family: 6 model-id: 0x2A (42) stepping: 7 microcode: 0x2F
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB
    L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1156 high: 1854 min/max: 800/3200 base/boost: 2500/2500
    scaling: driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil volts: 1.2 V
    ext-clock: 100 MHz cores: 1: 1089 2: 832 3: 1854 4: 851 bogomips: 19947
  Flags: acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx bts clflush cmov
    constant_tsc cpuid cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept est
    flexpriority flush_l1d fpu fxsr ht ibpb ibrs ida lahf_lm lm mca mce
    md_clear mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid
    pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdtscp sep smx
    ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc
    tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf
    mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: spec_store_bypass
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
    IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
    vendor: Lenovo ThinkPad T420 driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:0126 class-ID: 0300
  Display: server: X.org 1.21.1.2 driver: loaded: modesetting
    alternate: fbdev,vesa tty: 317x86
  Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
    vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
    chip-ID: 8086:1c20 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.13.13-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.40 running: no
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Lenovo ThinkPad T520
    driver: e1000e v: kernel port: 5080 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:1502
    class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp0s25 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Wireless 7260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0
    chip-ID: 8086:08b1 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Broadcom BCM2045B (BDC-2.1) type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-1.4:3 chip-ID: 0a5c:217f class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: see --recommends
  Device-2: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb
    v: 0.8 bus-ID: 2-1.3:7 chip-ID: 8087:07dc class-ID: e001
  Report: ID: hci1 rfk-id: 7 state: up address: N/A
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 232.89 GiB used: 149.36 GiB (64.1%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 250GB
    size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1B6Q scheme: GPT
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: Optiarc model: DVD RW AD-7710H rev: 1.S0
    dev-links: cdrom
  Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
    rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 52.3 GiB size: 51.17 GiB (97.85%) used: 24.87 GiB (48.6%)
    fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6 label: m-root
    uuid: eac7dc6d-6c36-43e2-99aa-b637cb1ca1ed
  ID-2: /run/media/alei/e839af4b-da72-4508-8dcb-48a00f732c11
    raw-size: 130.29 GiB size: 127.24 GiB (97.66%) used: 124.49 GiB (97.8%)
    fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 label: N/A
    uuid: e839af4b-da72-4508-8dcb-48a00f732c11
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 4 GiB used: 1024 KiB (0.0%)
    priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 label: N/A
    uuid: 46719606-7d4a-4e70-9c87-0b4d73e986cb
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 512 MiB fs: vfat label: N/A
    uuid: 14C3-280C
  ID-2: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 34.97 GiB fs: ext4 label: arch_os
    uuid: abf8a7b5-4534-4bd6-a136-688c853c00d0
  ID-3: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 size: 10.83 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A
    uuid: d3cee219-8223-4ad8-b1fa-543a92e1de44
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0024 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-1.4:3 info: Broadcom BCM2045B (BDC-2.1) type: Bluetooth
    driver: btusb interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 0a5c:217f
    class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0024 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 2-1.3:7 info: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: Bluetooth
    driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA
    chip-ID: 8087:07dc class-ID: e001
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 1992
Info:
  Processes: 237 Uptime: 1d 5h 49m wakeups: 2 Init: systemd v: 249
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1116 lib: 290
  flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash (sudo) v: 5.1.12 running-in: pty pts/2 (SSH)```

I ended up setting a persistent command to power on bluetooth that executes every 10 seconds. Not elegant, but the alternative is having nonfunctional bluetooth.

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